Just thought I'd throw out more info on the man who was brave enough to buck the Google's PC dictatorship and lost his job as a result. Here sounds like a really smart and compassionate individual; as a society, we owe it to him to make sure he is well taken care of. When - and, hopefully, soon - he is doing work more involved and interesting than whatever he was doing at Google, and is financially better off too - we will be able to tell Google exactly how dumb a move they had chosen to take.
So here is the skinny.
Cernovich Media report:
Everpedia article
I recommend reading the "Google manifesto" which is part of the above article in detail. It appears to be a quality piece of research in and of itself, well-sourced and well-worded.